2025-05-03 at 03:15PM

This post is to introduce my new tariff calculator web app, a small project I just created in an hour or two, to practice what I have been learning about web-app development.

One of the reasons I made it is to correct a couple of pitfalls I have seen with tariff calculators thus far:

• Distribution Factor: Calling it this for now because I’m not sure if this already has a technical name. But this is a percentage of the price that accounts for USA-side costs and profit margins; including but not limited to:
  • Final assembly: Some products may source parts or assemblies from the origin country, but the entire product’s final assembly may take place here in the USA (I’m a citizen of the USA).
  • Transportation: Naturally, some of the cost of transporting the item to the warehouse from the port is built into the retail price of an item.
  • Profit Margins: Importers typically build a profit margin into the final retail price of an item.
• Total Cost: While it’s a disclaimer for now (I may play around with toggling it), at some point in the future retailers will build tariffs into the retail price. While the tariff cost result of this calculator will still be somewhat accurate, you can disregard the total price if the tariff is already included in the price of the item.

Feel free to comment and correct me if I’m wrong about any of this. I’ll issue corrections when I have time.

2025-03-29 at 08:40PM

In recent news, Microsoft is removing bypassnro from its new Windows 11 images moving forward. A move that will effect users of Windows 11 Home mostly.

2025-01-24 at 02:22PM

The TikTok ban is something that is difficult to even follow the history of even for some of us who follow technology news.

So I’ll try to highlight the important parts of the whole process in this article.

2025-01-05 at 09:32PM

Out of curiosity I decided to go through with installing a comments section in my site, on a select number of posts just to test it. It is based off Github, and the comments section of each post will appear in the Discussions tab of my website’s repo.

2025-01-03 at 10:03AM

Dead internet theory is a theory that the internet as we had gotten to know it is starting to die out. Some consider it a conspiracy theory due to them not noticing some signs that it could be true. It is safe to say that after the last couple of months, I’ve noticed enough signs to be a believer myself. Here’s why:

2024-12-03 at 04:28PM

I wrote this a little bit later but decided to post this on my website as well. On December 2nd, 2024; I lost my beloved Butterscotch to chronic kidney disease. She will be missed. This article is for her memory.

2024-09-07 at 09:16PM

So you recently exchange someone’s computer, then get asked to transfer their Firefox bookmarks, there is no Sync account setup so they’re on the person’s old computer. What’s your plan of action?

For me, at least for a while, it was to pull the files off of the computer, and fetch them using MozBackup. Well, that was a no go this time around because of obvious reasons.